RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 44, 23 February 1904, Page 2

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

[tJinTID PXtBSS ABSOCIATIOH.]

LIST SIGHT'S CABLES-

A DANGER OF THE

FUTURE

INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS THREA-

TENED.

PANIC ON THE PARIS

BOURSE.

MILITARY AND NAVAL

ACTIVITY.

RUSSIA ON THE INDIAN FRONTIER

CANADA GETTING

READY.

PARIS, Yesterday. Sonsational rumours are afloat ; suggesting the embroilment of noiitral Powers, and, combined with a reaction from the previous optimism, they have caused a severe panic on the Paris Bourse. Rentes fell to 9;*.. r >f>. Russian securities fell less heavily, as the Russian Government supported them. During the fortnight securities on the French market depreciated £40,000,000 sterling. There is extraordinary activity at Cherbourg Arsenal. Torpedoers and submarines are daily exercising, and the mines at the entrance to tho harbour are being overhauled. LONDON, Yesterday The KiefT military staff declare that the armies in the Caucasus and Turkestan will be immediately mobilised. This is regarded as a veiled thivai against Tndia. OTTAWA, Yesterday. The Dominion Government intend to increase the militia to 100,000, rendering it possible to mobilise (50,000 quickly in the event of complications In the Far TCast.